Providing an oasis of reason in the desert of religious thought, Bart Centre's alter-ego, Dromedary Hump offers an atheist perspective at his blog
The Atheist Camel , clarifying the muddles of theists, religion and politics, belief, God, gods, the supernatural; science, reason, reality, logic, ethics, morality and the lack thereof. Bart has a new book out,
The Atheist Camel Rides Again: More Arguments and Observations From the Atheist Front.
Bart is a veteran, a Foxhole Atheist as a matter of fact, who served in Vietnam. He is the creator and co-owner of
Eternal Earth-Bound Pets , a service for pets of potentially raptured person. He will take care left-behind furry companions if you get sucked up to Heaven unexpectedly.
Scott Lohman will be talking to Bart about the book, about life, about pets and more on today's show.
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Amanda Marcotte is a feminist, atheist blogger and columnist whose views are nuanced and thoughtful but rarely careful. She recently noted that for all her work on feminism, her posts on atheism earn her the most negative attention. Tune in on Sunday, July 3, as she and
Stephanie Zvan discuss the intersection between the two. Find out how feminism led Amanda to atheism and how it led to a conflict with the Catholic League over her work for John Edwards' presidential campaign. We'll also discuss the role of religion in the GOP's recently ramped-up War on Women. Expect a spirited discussion.
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Revision of history to modify the present is an old trick on the populace. The United States was not intended to be an officially Christian Nation by the founders, but there is a movement afoot to lie about our basic freedom to disbelieve or believe and be full citizens. David Barton is the most prominent of the revisionists, quote-mining his way through the past to create the impression that the deists, atheists and secularists who crafted the U.S. Constitution and the republic really wanted to make sure that God smiled on our government and people. The Liars for Jesus want us to believe that government would be crippled and ineffective without a reliance on Godly teaching and supplication.
Chris Rodda never intended to be a writer, but as an observer of such revisionism she decided that she could not accept what the Liars for Jesus were foisting on an American public willing to accept their distortions. So, she started researching and writing and finding the source documents the faux historians were so deliberately mangling. She realized that she would need a three volume book in order to dispel (with these inconvenient things called "facts") the notion that this is an officially Jesus-directed nation. The first volume of Liars for Jesus is now out and available and Scott Lohman will be talking Rodda about what she has accomplished in her research so far.
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Black atheists experience isolation in several different ways. In their own families and community, they are often ostracized by a culture that assumes and values religion to a larger degree than the white culture in our society. While the number of atheists and non-religious whites is growing and currently, according to surveys, around 15% the number of black freethinkers is smaller at approximately 12%. The social bedrock of church attendance and belief runs deeper for blacks and so African-American atheists find themselves to be a "minority within a minority." We also observe that formal atheist and freethinking groups are to a large extent the domain of white people, and so when black people come to our meetings they find few of their own race in attendance. This can also give them the feeling of isolation.
Fortunately there are activists within the black atheist community who are working to change things for black atheists, and to the benefit of atheist groups as a whole. When there are more better voices we all win.
Jamila Bey is a comedian and a journalist in the Washington, D.C. area, and a black woman unafraid to use the "A" word. We are fortunate to have her on our show to talk about what she does to help spread the truths of Logic, Reason and Science to all who may hear. Minnesota Atheists President August Berkshire talked to her at the American Atheists Conference in Des Moines, IA in April, 2011. He will talk to her on our show.
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